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5 unusual facts about Tommy Yune


Buster the Amazing Bear

Buster the Amazing Bear is a comic book series created by Tommy Yune in 1993 about a baby bear cub who is genetically altered in a laboratory accident and transforms into an anthropomorphic superhero.

Macross Zero

According to Tommy Yune of Harmony Gold USA (sub-licensor of the original Macross series and merchandising rights of The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? outside of Japan), the company would have been "willing to let the deal go through" for a possible release by A.D. Vision.

Tommy Yune

Yune first began in comics with the 1992 cult anthropomorphic series Buster the Amazing Bear and joined Jim Lee at Wildstorm Productions after a number of years as a video game designer.

On July 2, 2007 at the Anime Expo in Long Beach, California, a disgruntled Macross fan by the name of Schiller, who posted on Macross World's forums under the username "Khyron Prime", hit Yune in the face with a plate full of cream pie.

In 2001, he left Wildstorm to become creative director at Harmony Gold USA for the relaunch of Robotech.


Robotech: Battlecry

The latter came in a silver box with the game and included a packet of 3" X 5" cards of character concept art from the game drawn by Tommy Yune, a lenticular card depicting a Veritech fighter in action, a Battlecry t-shirt vacuum packed into a disc-shaped tin with card RDF logo on top, the game's soundtrack on CD and a specially numbered Jack Archer dogtag.


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